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What I saw in Vietnam, 50 Years after the War and Ecocide
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What I saw in Vietnam, 50 Years after the War and Ecocide

H. Patricia Hynes

Greenfield, Mass. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – This year 2025 is the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Vietnam from the “American War.”  The […]

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“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:23

“Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend:” FitzGerald’s The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 1:23

10/31/2025 By Juan Cole

Samhain, the Celtic New Year, and Halloween

Samhain, the Celtic New Year, and Halloween

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Khamenei: Trump Killed Soleimani to help ISIL Terrorists, but is Impotent; Trump: "Be careful with your Words"

Khamenei: Trump Killed Soleimani to help ISIL Terrorists, but is Impotent; Trump: “Be careful with your Words”

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Trump on Friday warned Iran’s clerical Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to be “careful with his words” after the ayatollah gave […]

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Palestine isn't only Under Israeli Military Occupation-- Its History and Culture are Colonized, Too

Palestine isn’t only Under Israeli Military Occupation– Its History and Culture are Colonized, Too

By Asaad Abdel Rahman | – (Middle East Monitor ) – Although the Palestinian-Israeli conflict takes place within a relatively small geographic region, it receives […]

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Iran
What has Driven US - Iranian Enmity for over 40 Years?

What has Driven US – Iranian Enmity for over 40 Years?

By Jeffrey Fields | – Relations between the United States and Iran have been fraught for decades – at least since the U.S. helped overthrow […]

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Houthi
Saudi-Led Coalition, Houthis still Ravaging Yemen with War Crimes: Millions at Risk

Saudi-Led Coalition, Houthis still Ravaging Yemen with War Crimes: Millions at Risk

( Human Rights Watch ) – (Beirut) – Yemen’s armed conflict and humanitarian crisis is resulting in unspeakable suffering for millions of civilians despite increasing […]

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Donald Trump
The Trump Organized-Crime Style: Bullying Europe, Bullying Iran and  Impeached for Bullying Ukraine

The Trump Organized-Crime Style: Bullying Europe, Bullying Iran and Impeached for Bullying Ukraine

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – I was for my sins watching CNN the other evening and as I remember I saw Chris Cuomo on a […]

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China
Top Ten Ways China Looms over the Iowa Caucuses

Top Ten Ways China Looms over the Iowa Caucuses

Washington, D.C. (Special to Informed Comment) – The 2020 Iowa Caucuses will take place on Monday, February 3, 2020, as the first official nominating contest […]

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Hot Blob: Worst Ocean Heatwave on Record just Killed 1 Million Seabirds in N. Pacific

Hot Blob: Worst Ocean Heatwave on Record just Killed 1 Million Seabirds in N. Pacific

By Tim Birkhead | – The common guillemot (known as the common murre in North America) breeds in both the Pacific and the Atlantic and […]

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The War Powers Act isn't Restraining the President: Congress Must de-Fund Wars

The War Powers Act isn’t Restraining the President: Congress Must de-Fund Wars

(Foreign Policy in Focus) – By any measure, the War Powers Act has failed to constrain presidential warmaking. A simpler step would be to stop […]

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Earth's Hottest Decade on Record:  Scientists Underestimated CO2 Heating Juggernaut

Earth’s Hottest Decade on Record: Scientists Underestimated CO2 Heating Juggernaut

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – According to the BBC, NOAA, NASA and the UK Met Office have all certified that the decade of the 2010s […]

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